Family Halobacteriovoraceae
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Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Halobacteriovoraceae Koval et al. 2015, sp. nov.
Nomenclatural type: ¤ Halobacteriovorax Koval et al. 2015.
Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Halobacteriovorax, a bacterial genus name; -aceae, ending denoting a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Halobacteriovoraceae, the Halobacteriovorax family.
Valid publication: KOVAL, S. F., WILLIAMS, H. N. and STINE, O. C. 2015. Reclassification of Bacteriovorax marinus as Halobacteriovorax marinus gen. nov., comb. nov. and Bacteriovorax litoralis as Halobacteriovorax litoralis comb. nov.; description of Halobacteriovoraceae fam. nov. in the class Deltaproteobacteria. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 65, 593-597.
Original article in IJSEM Online